With fewer than 500 North Atlantic right whales left in the world's oceans, knowing the health and status of each whale is integral to the efforts of researchers working to protect the species from extinction. In the NOAA Right Whale Recognition challenge, 470 players on 364 teams competed to build a model that could identify any individual, living North Atlantic right whale from its aerial photographs. Felix Lau entered the competition with the goal of practicing new techniques in deep learning, and ended up taking ...

With fewer than 500 North Atlantic right whales left in the world's oceans, knowing the health and status of each whale is integral to the efforts of researchers working to protect the species from extinction. In the NOAA Right Whale Recognition challenge, 470 players on 364 teams competed to build a model that could identify any individual, living North Atlantic right whale from its aerial photographs. The deepsense.io team entered the competition spurred by a recent improvements in their image recognition skills and ended ...